President Warren Harding signs a restrictive immigration quota act which limits yearly immigration to a maximum of 3 percent of any nationality’s numbers in 1910. A 1924 act reduced the limit to 2 percent of the number in 1890. (Digital History ID 1485)

1965

(10/03)

The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 abolishes the national quota system of immigration. (Digital History ID 931)

1982

(06/15)

The Supreme Court rules that undocumented immigrant have a right to free public education. (Digital History ID 1359)